User blog comment:Semerone/old post 4/@comment-27493717-20170225124010

Thank you for posting your story. It's really heartwarming. :)

Here's my story:

I went through something similar on the first few wikis I joined back in around 2008.

First my edits weren't respected by the some wiki's admins, as they said that my info was too new and I shouldn't spoil the players.

My very first edit was on the English and German Wikipedia pages about Nintendo's Kirby series, where I tried to add some info about recently released beta content on the (then completely new) game Kirby Epic Yarn.

Back then I also fixed some grammar mistakes.

I was very sad, so I went to the German Pokémon wiki and helped them out by adding some data about the Pokémon's species and levels appearing in the different places in the 1st and 2nd generation games.

After doing a lot for the wiki, a few admins suddenly didn't want me anymore.

Despite many other users protests I left that wiki.

Once a time (I don't know if this was before I joined the Pokémon wiki or after it anymore), I also visited an English Megaman Wiki and helped them out by uploading an image for the first time. Uploading images was a very complicated task back then, but I somehow managed to upload a screenshot of the Copybot from a Gameboy Advance Megaman NT Warrior game.

After that, I kinda lost interest in working on wikis and had more important things to do, like preparing for lots of final exams.

I also was very active in the Spore community back in the day and had lots of friends there, till my game broke from an update and the EA support did nothing to help me despite me writing many e-mails and sending the required data, so I had no choice but to leave the community as well. My friends were very sad, but I couldn't do anything about it.

After many years, I finally joined a wiki again (the Five Nights at Candy's Emil Macko Wikia), because I started to really like Five Nights at Freddy's and stumbled on fanmade series based on it by sheer accident.

First I had a rough start and was bullied by a few users, causing me to almost quit the wiki again, but the admins recognized my work and soon, I was promoted to an admin.

Because I had never been an admin before, I was very surprised at first, but then I felt very honored.

After working on FNAC Emil Macko Wikia for a few months, Scientedfic visited us and told us that there was another FNAC wiki that needed a helping hand.

We (the admins) agreed to help them out and thus, after helping out a lot, PalomonsF decided to make me an admin at their place as well.

After helping out both FNAC wikis for some time, one night I had a dream about making a Kishin Douji Zenki wiki, and after making the first page drafts on paper, I decided to ask the wiki founders from the two FNAC wikis (Jevron and Palomons), if I needed to take anything into account before founding my first own wiki.

After waiting for awhile, I guess it was Scientedfic (but I don't now for sure anymore) who answered me on Palomons' Message Wall and told me that I can just go ahead and make a new wiki, and thus, Kishin Douji Zenki Wikia was born.

After that, I also helped you a bit with your Super Mario 64 Offical Wikia and helped out a few other wikis, but in general that's my story till now. :)

Original post by Semerone on 11:05 2016-06-16

I like your story, a lot. This is what Wikia looked like in 2008, I guess(you may not believe it but that shot was token by my cousin when he was 13(lol).

Original post by FreddyOfAxes on 19:59 2016-06-16

Heh. Yeah, I know it looked way different then. x)

Things changed a lot over time and working on a wiki got a lot easier. (in my opinion)

Original post by Semerone on 09:43 2016-06-17